DANGEROUS SUFFRAGETTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 544, 22 February 1913, Page 5

DANGEROUS SUFFRAGETTES.

WOMEN WITH BOMBS

MINISTER'S HOUSE WRECKED. VSy Tclccra-uh.- Press AbhopUl ion, Copyrißflt London, Wednesday. An attempt has been made, apparently by suffragettes, to destroy with bomos an unfinished house at Wa'.ton-on-Hill, Surrey, which is being erected for Mr, Lloyd-George, Chancelor of the Exchequer. At six o'clock this morning the gardener heard a terrific cxploison, which>recked the upper portion of the building, driving the windows of the bedroom in which it originated 25 yards from the wail. It was found that a second bomb had been left in a cupboard in a corridor. This consisted of seven one-pound tins of black powder bound with rope, the fuse consisting of a piece of rag, covered with paraffin and connected with a candle placed on paraffined shaving i timed to explode before the workmen appeared at (1.30 a.m. The explosion in the bedroom, however, blew out the candle, and the bomb, therefore, did not go off. A quantity of paper soaked in paraffin and distributed in the rooms was ignited, but the flame were extinguished. The perpetrators entered the building by a window at four o'clock, and it is believed that they motored from the scene towards London after the explosion. Two hairpins form the chief clue on which the police are working. Police patrolling the adjoining golf links inspected the house at midnight, when evertyhing was .secure. The building, which was nearly finished, will largely require re-building. Mr Lloyd-George is at present on a holiday at the Riviera. In an interview in London to-day, Mrs Drummond, a prominent suffragette leaier, said: "I think it's grand. Mr Lloyd-George will realise that things are getting serious. I advocate all militancy short of the sacrifice of human life." MRS PANKHURSTS' DECLARATION. Received February 21, !). 10 p.m. London, Friday. The Government law officers are considering Mrs Pankhurst's speech declaring the responsibility of instigating the bomb outrages. The Women's Social Political Union has established a branch at Paris. Christabel Pankhurst will address weekly meetings. She declares nothing is to be gained without violence. "We have all (he necessary money. If Mrs Pankhurst is imprisoned she will let herself die of hunger." Mrs Fawcett, Lady Betty Balfour, and several other suffragettes are strongly protesting Mrs Pankliurst'B method of violence. Several suffragettes were sentenced at the London sessions for window smashing, to four and six months' imprisonment. Received February 22 9.30 a.m. London, Friday. The suffragettes placed lubes of Greek fire in a Battersea pillar box and destroyed a number of letters. They smashed fourteen plate glass windows.

At Ashford, Kent, they damaged ;he golf links, and fired the shelter.